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Evening all Well, as posted earlier the coaches have arrived. In other good news, I recieved emails today to the effect that my 2 lectures on Friday have been postponed, so after 2pm on Wednesday I'm on easter break - restarting April 11th. Plan for this break? finally get my scenery done! I need to finish painting the backscene and make up some linking sections to cover the board joint - my current plan for these involves some offcuts of thin rubber grip-matting (the stuff you can buy by the roll to put on shelves, tables, etc to stop stuff sliding around) cut to fit and with scatter, lichen etc glued on - should hide the joint well and be easy to move for transport. Had an interesting encounter this afternoon - followed a brand-new Land Rover Discovery (Series 3) for about 5-10 miles on my way home. They've ruined the aesthetics of it to my mind, and it doesn't seem any better than my '96 Series 1 Disco in terms of acceleration and handling - was able to cruise along happily behind it without any effort! Bottom line, I'd rather have my truck than a new one - mine has mechanical components instead of piles of highly-strung microchips... Steve, nice photo of the prototype Deltic there - pity it doesn't run! Last I heard was that the Deltic Preservation Society were being allowed to take a look at it with a view to working out what it needs to return to running order - apparently the big problem is the power units (NRM won't let them modify it to take the production type and the originals are in a bad way)? I keep meaning to find a cheap Lima '37 chassis and fit one of the Dapol "Deltic" bodyshell kits onto it - wouldn't be the finest runner but it'd be a lot cheaper than a Bachmann chassis! Crandell, yup, they're very nice coaches. Not run them any distance yet though all wheels seem in gauge and free-rolling. The boxes were interesting too - they have a grey plastic base with moulded track, then a clear plastic top that holds the model in place - very nice presentation in that you can see the contents properly. Only snag is that Rowa went out of production a while ago, though they're well worth hunting down on ebay - I have these two and the Silberlinge driving trailer pictured in my sig, though I'll be looking out for more in future! Bye for now
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